Quotes About Script

I do think the first time you read a script, that gut response is very important, and that probably plants a seed that continues to blossom throughout the whole experience.

Every actor has to deal with what's on his plate, and I try to deal with doing the best work possible with the most challenging scripts. I don't base it on whether it's a feature film or a TV-movie or cable.

One of the characteristics of plays that are made into films is that they can be very talky.

I was a theatre major and started off as a playwright.

Please explain to me what being an icon is. How do you define it? I haven't been given a script. I don't know what the dialogues of an icon are.

I, of course, wanted to do something with Drew Barrymore. Please. So we were reading scripts back and forth and then we found this script, Fever Pitch.

Sometimes television can just jump from one bit of plot to the next, and the words fill in the in-between.

When you get to set, you don't try to play the plot; you just play the character.

It is very challenging to make a fresh screenplay based on a used plot.

I think with musicals, it's much more part of the script. They don't want songs that would stop the show; they need songs that keep the plot moving.

What I look for in a script is the plot point and whether they're strong, obviously, or not, whether the characters are rich or not, and if I can do justice to the character or not. Some movies you look at and the script is so bad that no one can do anything with the script.

It's not often that scripts come across our desks that are written so poetic and so honest from our perspective, as a black man and a black woman in Hollywood.

For 'A.D.,' when I got the script, I was really moved, because even though it told a story that I knew all my life, it was told in a different way. It was told from a very personal point of view.

Personally when I listen to a script, I think from the audience's point of view. I would ask myself whether they would like to see me in this role?

I go straight into shooting with a script that's 80 per cent complete and I wait for my characters to grow on me before I finalise the climax.

With most good scripts and good shows, they expect the actor to bring some of their ideas to the backstory of the character. It's always a good collaboration between the actor and the writer and the director to try stuff out during the process.

Because I work in television, I always knew that I loved working with writers. It's very collaborative. You're always in a room full of writers.

The script is the coloring book that you're given, and your job is to figure out how to color it in. And also when and where to color outside the lines.

In most scripts, one or two characters have a lot of colors.

For a love story, basic emotion should be there, you need a combination of everything. Good chemistry between the actors, music, script. If even one of them is not in place, the magic will not be there.

Comedies are something I'd be very interesting in doing.

I loved 'Deadpool'. I loved the comics, and I loved the script.

Sometimes when I'm reading a script, I can't quite believe that this is going on television alongside cereal commercials.

In the movies, you typically do get to see the script beforehand. TV is different because there are a lot of scripts in the future that you haven't seen. You commit to a show, and you have to believe in the showrunner and their team and the stories they're going to tell.